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    Rabbi Steve's Writings

     

    Rabbi Steve's High Holy Days Sermons

    A Polarity: Human Limitation and Communal Aspiration — Yom Kippur 5774

    Reconstructionism, Tradition, and the Torah — Rosh Hashanah 5774

    Common Ground — Yom Kippur 5773

    Jewish Values and the Politics of Civility — Rosh Hashanah 5773

    Go and Study —  Yom Kippur 5772  

    The 10th Anniversary of September 11th
    and Our Deep Interdependence 
    —  Rosh Hashanah 5772 

    Searching for God in the 21st Century — Yom Kippur 5771

    The New Big Picture — Rosh Hashanah 5771

    Building Sacred Community — Yom Kippur 5770

    Positivity and the High Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah 5770

    Their Accountability, Our Responsibility Yom Kippur 5769

    Change and Transition — Rosh Hashanah 5769

    The Science of Goodness — Yom Kippur 5768

    Humility: The Master Key to Teshuvah — Rosh Hashanah 5768

    Our Lives as Sacred Text - Rosh Hashanah 5767

    Overlapping Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah 5766

    Recognizing Our Collective Transgressions — Yom Kippur 5765

    The Mitzvah of Hope — Rosh Hashanah 5765

    Teshuvah — Rosh Hashanah 5764

     

    Rabbinic Corner:

    Rabbi Steve's column in our Kol HaLev Happenings newsletter

    2008: October, September, June 

    2007: July, June 

    2006: July

    2005: October, September, August 2005

    2004: June- More thinking About Shabbat

    2003: November: Thinking about Shabbat, September: A Great Opportunity, July: On Not Taking Things For Granted, April: Thinking About War, January: Embracing Our Religious Diversity in Practical Ways.

    2002: November: Get to the Polls: It's the Jewish Thing to Do, May: Respecting the Range of Positions on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.

     


     

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    Office: 2245 Warrensville Center Road, Suite 215 . University Heights, OH 44118 . (216) 320-1498

    Kol HaLev is affiliated with Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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